Medicine: Ears

The names of common drugs which make habitual users permanently hard of
hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the
convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last
week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of
Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin, sodium salicylate),
tobacco, alcohol, opium, arsenic (salvarsan), lead, mercury,
phosphorus, oil of chenopodium, aniline dyes, insulin.

Of all the nerves in the body, the auditory nerve is most sensitive to
drugs, said Dr. Taylor, and a majority of the 10,000,000 people in the
U. S. who do not hear clearly may well...